Mistletone

CASS MCCOMBS MELBOURNE SHOW: Thursday, January 30 @ Northcote Social Club w/- Ross McLennan. Tickets on sale now from The Corner Box Office.

Mistletone and Triple R present golden singer/songwriter of our time, Cass McCombs with full band, supported by Ross McLennan in a rare solo performance. Cass McCombs has traversed many borders, literally and figuratively, since his great debut, Not The Way, in 2003. Americana, bedroom pop, folk and chamber music have variously held the interest of the Baltimore native, but compelling storytelling and occasional flashes of humor are the common thread here. Cass’s 2011’s twin releases, Humour Risk and Wit’s End (Domino), highlights amongst a catalogue peppered with brilliance.

His new double album for Domino Records, Big Wheel and Others, is a sprawling, visionary album that may just be his best yet. Big Wheel and Others is further proof of Cass’s status as one of his generation’s most visionary songwriters – as uncompromising, radical and counter-cultural as any other artist working today.

As Pitchfork noted, “he’s quietly become one of America’s finest chroniclers of fringe characters, a writer of heart-rending love songs and psychedelic odes to the natural world, a teller of tall-tales with a sense of humor dry as desert wood, and that rare folksinger who actually sings about the folk. Over the last decade, McCombs has been a remarkably consistent, if not publicity-averse, singer-songwriter, comparable to Bill Callahan and Will Oldham as our foremost translators of Old, Weird America into modern terms (and vice-versa).”